Archive for September, 2009

GIRLS RIPPING IT WITH ONBOARD

Posted by Vi-YO-la On September - 29 - 2009

Check out this excellent film snippet from last spring with some of the coolest chickas in town just doing what they do best: pointing their boards towards random objects at vast speeds and performing sick tricks. It just looks fun!

The Girls Week was organized in Silveretta Nova in Vorarlberg, Austria by Onboard and there are cool web blogs on the girls adventures (eg.getting chased by pirates) and the story will be in one of the issues.

Riders include Sarka Pancochova who is currently TTR World No2, Silvia Mittermueller who finished World No4 in the TTR rankings last winter and Leanne Pelosi, Alexis Waite, Lisa Filzmoser, Margot Rozies and Hana Beaman.

Read the blogs on Onboard.

ELIAS ELHARDT AT PIRATE VIDEO “JOLLY ROGER” PREMIERE

Posted by Vi-YO-la On September - 15 - 2009

The Northern Hemisphere leg of the TTR Tour is about to begin, and one sure sign of the winter coming are the snowboard video premieres. Last season Elias Elhardt (GER) bagged some great results on the Tour and managed to squeese in the filming for a great part in the Pirates new snowboarding video. Here’s the scope from the premiere:pics: Elias with Lene (itslenejohansen.com)On Friday night the Pirates were celebrating the result of their season quest at home in Innsbruck with a huge party, concert and DJ set for the premiere projection of “Jolly Roger” their latest video. Since Pirates mastermind never submitted to digital attraction, their movie are well known for combining sick actions with artsy quality 16mm filming.This year the crew composed amongst other by riders such as Austrian artist Gigi Rüf, Jibbing limits explorer Hans Ahlund, US prodigy Drew Fuller, tricks machine like Marco Grilc, Osa or Marco Feichtner saw the addition of quite a few talented riders: Juuso Laivisto, Stefan Maurer, Tyler Chorlton, Filippo Kratter, Stephan Maurer, Markus Keller and Elias Elhardt. Read the rest of this entry »

Watch out: Now it´s snowing free HOTZONE catalog mags

Posted by Da Bossmann On September - 10 - 2009

Punctual to the start of the new winter season it starts snowing free catalog mags at Europe´s best online snowboard proshop. The brand new HOTZONE catalog is made by snowboarders for snowboarders and offers on more than 170 pages exceeding 500 products everything a rider´s heart desires. From latest boards, boots and bindings to hottest stuff for the coolest but best days of the year and up to stylish accessoires to make life sweeter. For a life apart from park, pipe and backcountry there is a great choice of latest streetwear and shoe styles in flashy colours and brash designs. Furthermore, the brand new print cataloge provides loads of entertainment with numerous amazing reports of roadtrips and snowboard events, a lot of info about the HOTZONE team riders and many news out of HOTZONE´s white world.Everyone should get an own free HOTZONE catalog! It can simply be ordered on www.hotzone.tv and comes in free of charge by the first post. Read the rest of this entry »

MATHIEU CREPEL: SUMMER GOLD DIGGING

Posted by Da Bossmann On September - 8 - 2009

Like many other riders on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, also former TTR World Champion, Mathieu Crepel is spending the summer traveling to some of the nicest places to surf and snowboard in summer with his crew and friends – among those winner of the 6Star Arctic Challenge in 2009, Arthur Longo. We are looking forward to see both on Tour again in 2009/2010. Read the rest of this entry »

ELIAS ELHARDT IN RIP CURL’S NEW VIDEO PROJECT

Posted by Da Bossmann On September - 7 - 2009

Elias Elhardt, one of the best German riders on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, and team rider of our indutry partner Rip Curl has a new video out. Looks like the boy keeps himself busy. We are looking forward to seeing him on the Tour next year – maybe he can repeat his success at the 5Star Champs Open in Crans-Montana and the 6Star O’Neill Evolution in Davos. Watch out for this young German talent.Below you’ll find a web report from Elias Elhardt who’s right now shredding in Argentina with the Rip Curl team, exploring team mate’s playground  for the second episode of Rip Curl team video “Welcome Home”. Read the rest of this entry »

When the days get colder and shorter, when you can see a thin spread of snow on top of the highest mountains, when there’s a new action sports movie premiere every Saturday night and when Sweet launches its new website – then you know for sure that the winter is near. On www.sweetprotection.com you can find all the new products. In addition, Sweet also launches a Team blog, with the latest news from team riders like Terje Håkonsen, Tore Holvik, Torgrim Vole, PK Hunder and Tom Wallisch. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazing Zimtstern ‘Leaves’ Trailer Launched

Posted by Mr OFF On September - 1 - 2009

In late summer 2008 TTR Gold Partner, Zimtstern, felt like expressing sustainability, a subject which has always been a major focus for them and snowboarding as an industry. The collection theme for fall/winter 09.10 ‘Wildlife’ inspired the director Marco Lutz and the producer Stefan Bircher to the idea of ‘Leaves’.http://www.vimeo.com/6376847The Zimtstern Snowboard Pro Team Riders Hans Åhlund, Reto Kestenholz, Colin Frei und Simon Abt declared the woods their playground and in November a crew of about 30 people backed out into the woods for 4 days of shooting. Read the rest of this entry »